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Washington Post: Trump supporters have the worst Facebook grammar
Washington Post ^ | 10-7-2015 | Justin Wm. Moyer

Posted on 10/07/2015 8:57:48 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

Searching comments on presidential candidates’ Facebook pages in search of grammatical errors, typos, misplaced or missing apostrophes, unnecessary capital letters and redundant exclamation points bears fruit in seconds:

Amid this flawed, headache-inducing verbiage, there is a pattern.

So says Grammarly, a private, San Francisco-based company behind what’s billed as “the world’s leading automated proofreader.”

The company analyzed comments on 19 presidential candidates’ Facebook pages and found that:

1) supporters of Republican candidates make more mistakes than supporters of Democrats;

2) supporters of Republican candidates use fewer unique words than supporters of Democrats; and

3) Donald Trump supporters made the most mistakes of them all.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; demagogicparty; districtofcolumbia; election2016; elegance; facebook; grammar; memebuilding; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; proofreading; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; washpost
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1 posted on 10/07/2015 8:57:48 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Let’s check on the grammar of the 47%.


2 posted on 10/07/2015 8:58:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MarvinStinson

3 posted on 10/07/2015 8:59:25 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: MarvinStinson

They ain’t seen nothin yet.


4 posted on 10/07/2015 8:59:59 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Mr Apple; SunkenCiv; Grampa Dave; Old Sarge; jsanders2001; justiceseeker93; stephenjohnbanker; ...

This info is so devastating that Trump will have to drop out of the race immediately.


5 posted on 10/07/2015 8:59:59 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Me flunk English? Unpossible!


6 posted on 10/07/2015 9:00:24 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Step away from the Koolade.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Most of us just pound away....just to get the message out. We’re not writing a Shakespearian sonnet.


7 posted on 10/07/2015 9:00:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Oh NO! How can I ever vote for Trump now? Oh what will I do now?


8 posted on 10/07/2015 9:02:04 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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Oh my god---they've gone mainstream with their grammar superiority. Typically it's only isolated ninny state liberals on Facebook correcting people's grammar.
9 posted on 10/07/2015 9:02:05 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Let’s check on the grammar of the 47%.”

Could it be that part of the 47% are DT supporters on Facebook? Lol!


10 posted on 10/07/2015 9:02:30 AM PDT by MNGal
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LMAO....really now...that's all they can find....

I have repeatedly pasted stuff from their site onto here and had to correct their spelling...

Hello pot, meet Kettle....

11 posted on 10/07/2015 9:02:44 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: MarvinStinson

The country and the world is going to hell in a hand basket, and that’s what these idiots are worried about?
Grammar?


12 posted on 10/07/2015 9:03:28 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: Sacajaweau; trisham; Lazamataz; Sarah Barracuda; Lucy Hamilton; texasredhead; Nachum; dennisw

It hurts to see a man so utterly destroyed by revelation of such powerfully negative information.


13 posted on 10/07/2015 9:04:36 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Washington Post: Trump supporters have the worst Facebook grammar

As opposed to the Washington Compost whom consistently lie and disinform with perfect Liberal Socialist English.

14 posted on 10/07/2015 9:04:56 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: MarvinStinson

How do we know it isn’t a biased sample?


15 posted on 10/07/2015 9:05:12 AM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Sacajaweau

MAybe they should do a fact check.


16 posted on 10/07/2015 9:05:54 AM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: HarleyLady27

I have noticed that the use of the word f**k is very common in leftists and that usage shows up online, especially when an argument goes against them.


17 posted on 10/07/2015 9:05:58 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: jmaroneps37

Hey Wapo — If we were all democrats this would be a perfect world, right? Isn’t that what you really, really believe? Well, OK, you win. I’m marching down to the cemetery to find a recently filled grave, then I’m going to the municipal clerk to register myself as a democrat under the dead person’s name. That’s how it works, right?


18 posted on 10/07/2015 9:06:00 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Hitler made no grammatical errors.

(I don’t actually know that, but seriously, if grammar is your big priority in leadership, maybe Kerry or some other snobby elitist would be your dream President.)


19 posted on 10/07/2015 9:06:33 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: jmaroneps37

I understand that when when Trump received this information

he immediately wet his pants

and then had to be put to bed, heavily sedated.


20 posted on 10/07/2015 9:06:34 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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